"Many of the most popular apps in the Google Play store contain trackers: you download the app, and the trackers sweep up a variety of data... Such tactics create a 'power asymmetry' for marketers, say Michael Kwet and Sean O’Brien, authors of the study." https://yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/4654-the-secret-sharers

@dthompson In seriousness though one of the reasons they scare me so much is that the combination of useful tech with marketable advantages over Linux and lack of any kind of copyleft much less tivoization protection might actually drive adoption no matter how much we dislike it.

A superior kernel could end Linux-based consumer devices, and lack of both copyleft and tivoization protection would make them even more into black boxes that users are locked out of.

Have started reading "Utopia for Realists" and am enjoying it greatly, so far. Anyone else have opinions to share? I for one am seriously surprised at the long history of #basicincome - including that Nixon of all people was keen to implement it in the USA, and it was the dems that killed it (?).

Kinda thinking today that #PatricksDay / #PaddysDay is a day where we celebrate the quasi-mythological figure who vanquished old Irish culture and magic, bringing in dull, homogenised Christianity. I know these days it's more a celebration generally of Irish culture. But I'm feeling an ironic twist now, that it all begins with the destruction of Irish culture.

'Frankly I think the ideal weapon would be a pistol,” he told the Guardian, “but due to the licensing requirements in the state we’re going to have a hard enough time getting homeless people shotguns as it is.'

I read that sentence over and over and every time its sheer beauty makes me long for the embrace of death to engulf us all as there is no greater #poetry left to be written.